Vermont is a state I love. I could not look upon the peaks of Ascutney, Killington and Mansfield without being moved in a way that... no other scene could move me. It was here that I first saw the light of day, here that I received my bride. Here my dead lie buried, pillowed among the everlasting hills. I love Vermont because of her hills and valleys, her scenery and invigorating climate, but most of all, I love her because of her indomitable people. They are a race of pioneers who almost impoverished themselves for love of others. If ever the spirit of liberty should vanish from the rest of the Union, it could be restored by the generous share held by the people in this brave little State of Vermont.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for... passion?... All the cosmetics names seemed obscenely obvious to me in their promises of sexual bliss. They were all firming or uplifting or invigorating. They made you tingle. Or glow. Or feel young. They were prepared with hormones or placentas or royal jelly. All the juice and joy missing in the lives of these women were to be supplied by the contents of jars and bottles. No wonder they would spend twenty dollars for an ounce of face makeup or thirty for a half-ounce of hormone cream. What price bliss? What price sexual ecstasy?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The poet's body even is not fed like other men's, but he sometimes tastes the genuine nectar and ambrosia of the gods, and lives a... divine life. By the healthful and invigorating thrills of inspiration his life is preserved to a serene old age.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil--far more invigorating to see it as ...essential for honing the mind, and as a positive good in itself. For the day that moral issues cease to be fought over is the day the word "human" disappears from the race.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

... the novel, as a living force, if not as a work of art, owes an incalculable debt to what we call, mistakenly, the new psycholo...gy, to Freud, in his earlier interpretations, and more truly, I think, to Jung.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »